The Diverse Discourse Fellowship is a year-long interdisciplinary initiative supporting emerging voices that challenge dominant paradigms and reimagine the role of dialogue in shaping equitable futures. Rooted in the belief that critical discourse must be expansive, intersectional, and grounded in lived experience, the fellowship invites artists, researchers, activists, and cultural workers to develop projects at the intersection of language, identity, and systemic transformation.

Fellows engage in a collaborative environment that centers experimental methodologies, radical imagination, and community-responsive practices. Through a series of salons, peer-led workshops, and mentorship intensives, the Diverse Discourse Fellowship nurtures work that destabilizes binaries, amplifies underrepresented narratives, and cultivates new grammars of resistance and belonging.

The 2024 cohort brings together practitioners exploring themes such as diasporic epistemologies, decolonial poetics, speculative linguistics, neurodivergent communication, and ancestral knowledge systems. The fellowship culminates in a public symposium and publication, where fellows share their research, provocations, and provocatively unfinished questions.